Trump carves up world and international order with it
- Trump's administration considered actions impacting Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
- These actions occurred as the US appeared to shift from defending international law.
- Trump suggested acquiring Greenland and "taking back" the Panama Canal.
- Trump insisted "we've got to have" Greenland, according to reports.
- Analysts warn that these actions risk a return to great power domination.
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Trump's "1984"-Like Vision for a New World Order
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,” aroused a…
The end of Pax Americana... and hopefully the dawn of a better world
The Latin phrase Pax Americana, meaning 'American Peace,' was created after the end of the Second World War in 1945. For the next 80 or so years America acted as the Western world's peacemaker and anchor of stability. But now, all of a sudden, Pax Americana is being dismantled by the bewildering...
From Bad to Worse
The Legitimation Crisis and Authoritarian State The current political conjuncture can be defined by an unfolding sense, in Canada and around the world, that neoliberal policies have failed and even capitalism itself is not working. This is driven by the weakening, dismantling, or even destruction of the things that had made the capitalist system seem ‘legitimate’ and ‘fair’ in the eyes of the working classes – rising wages, affordable housing, i…
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